Linklaters' dedicated Pensions Litigation Group comprises lawyers who specialise in pensions dispute resolution.
Trustees of pension schemes, employers, insurance/life companies, representative members and pensions professionals, such as actuaries and administrators place their faith in the group’s litigation, pensions law and regulatory expertise. The track record of Linklaters’ lawyers before the Pensions Ombudsman and the Courts is unrivalled.
The Pensions Litigation Group acts for a number of schemes on discrimination issues. Employers and trustees seek the group’s expertise in situations where errors have been detected in scheme provisions and require an application to the High Court to seek correction of those provisions.
Most of the disputes on which Linklaters advises are resolved at an early stage and never become public knowledge. However, the firm has appeared on a number of the most complex and high profile pension disputes of recent years. Such cases have frequently been decided before the House of Lords and Court of Appeal in favour of Linklaters’ clients.
Find out more about Linklaters’ quarterly publication, Pensions Ombudsman Focus.
Recent pensions litigation cases include advising
- KPMG before the Court of Appeal in a high profile case over whether the KPMG scheme was a defined benefit scheme or a money purchase (defined contribution) scheme and KPMG’s obligations to fund a substantial deficit in the scheme.
- the liquidators of a company from a claim by trustees over a substantial scheme deficit involving duties of good faith and the meaning of scheme rules.
- representative members in a case before the High Court concerning overpayment of benefits to more than 1,000 members. Linklaters successfully settled the case, avoiding substantial costs being incurred by the scheme.
